RURAL TRADE UNION MOVEMENT IN ZONA DA MATA OF PERNAMBUCO, BRAZIL: WELFARE AND NEW FORMS OF RESISTANCE, FROM 1969 TO 1974

Abstract

This article will focus the problem of rural unionism and new forms of resistance in the Zona da Mata of Pernambuco, in the period corresponding to the years 1969 to 1974. The Brazil at this time was considered by the dictatorial regime implemented in 1964 in a state of internal war, and introduced one of the heaviest periods of exception policy. He was executed a regime of political terror which suppressed individual freedoms and collective thinking and action, have become commonplace with the know-how of the United States practices brutal torture of political prisoners, as well as kidnappings, killings and disappearances of persons suspected opposition to the regime. The control over the rural unionism in the period cut here, as well as all the Brazilian trade union movement has been strengthened by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security in ways blitzens listed under the pretext of ongoing investigations of corrupt practices or subversion. The trade union movement, especially the countryside was also absorbed by welfare practices imposed from above by the authoritarian state. He was hampered in its action representation and defense of class interests and turned into the only vehicle assistance programs from the federal government. This shift from a politics of representation of class to a policy of appeasement of labor conflicts, and lobbying the state experienced by the rural labor movement in Pernambuco is the object of this article.